44	RAS MALA	chap IV
meditated, but a report was at this tune bi ought to lum, that
Babajee's division had advanced little beyond their encamp-
ment, and that his Arabs refused to move in the diiection of the
British troops, while it became at the same time evident that
Kumal-ood-deen, who had for a time continued to maintain
pretty well the station allotted to him, had now lallen behind,
and was unable to keep that flank cleai against the supenoi
bodies of the enemy's cavalry Major Walker was now com-
pelled to relinquish his meditated enterprise, which, without the
effectual support of the allies, was of too hazardous a nature,
he therefore inclined still further to the right, a step which,
while it removed the detachment gradually to a greatei dis-
tance from the enemy's file, enabled it also to occupy some
using ground which was possessed by bodies of then horse
In tins position the detachment halted until dusk, when it
retuined, without any interruption from the enemy, to its
former encampment The loss of the enemy was reported
to have been consideiable, but the casualties on the British
side were also heavy Lieutenant Creagh, of His Majesty's 80th
Regiment, and Captains Mac Donald and Lovell, of the Honor-
able Company's service, were killed The total loss in killed and
wounded was one hundred and forty-six, twenty-five of whom
were Europeans, and a siv-poundei, the carnage of which had
fallen to pieces, was left upon the field
Major Walker was now satisfied that the war could not, with
the foices at his disposal, be terminated by a coup-de-mam He
resolved, theiefore, to adopt the system of the Mahrattas them-
selves, and agreed, after consulting with Babajee, to eiect bat-
teries and to proceed against the enemy's camp as if it were a
fortified town Meanwhile Mr Duncan, at Cambay, and his
colleagues, at the Piesidency, exerted themselves to pubh
forwards the laigest reinforcements which could be assembled
The whole of the disposable force at Bombay was immediately
embaiked, and a pressing requisition made to Colonel Sir
William Clarke, the British commanding officer at Goa, to join
the aimy before Kuree with the European brigade under his
orders, and a battalion of native infantry His Majesty's ships,
Intrepid and TerpswJiore, the Honorable Company's ship,
Cornwalhs, and the Upton Casik, were employed to convey
the additional troops to the northwards